Diet for Preventing Dehydration

Ms H

It is time to be prepared for the hot summer days. In this place you learn about the symptoms of dehydration, the action to prevent dehydration and the essential foods for keeping hydrated.

Symptoms of dehydration:

·      increased thirst.

·      dry mouth.

·      tired or sleepy.

·      decreased urine output.

·      headache.

·      dry skin. And

·      dizziness.

Action to prevent dehydration:

·      Drink plenty of water. Take a container of water or sports drink with you when you exercise, and try to drink at least every 15 to 20 minutes.

·      Avoid high protein diet

·      Avoid any alcohol, they increase dehydration

·      Wear lightweight and light colour clothing.

Foods that can contribute to your fluid intake:

·      Cucumber contains 95% of water. It also provides you with dietary fibre vitamin C, potassium and magnesium. Example: a cup of cucumber slices is nearly as thirst quenching as a glass of water.

·      Strawberries contain 91% of water, vitamin C also provide folate, a vitamin B that’s essential for the healthy growth of new cells.

·      Watermelon contains 92% of water. It is a good source of vitamin C and, also has lycopene, an antioxidant that may help protect against heart disease and some types of cancer.

·      Salad greens contain more than 90% of water and nutrients such as dietary fibre, vitamin C, vitamin B6, beta- carotene, vitamin K, thiamine, potassium, calcium, magnesium and iron.

·      Regular plain yogurt is 85% to 88% water. You’ll get calcium, vitamin B12 riboflavin and probiotics.

Recipes:

Cucumber salad:

Ingredients:

Cucumber	1 sliced
Lettuce	sliced
Ruccola	Handful
Roasted buckwheat	½ cup
Pumpkin seeds	½ cup
Yogurt	½ cup

Melon and strawberry salad:

Ingredients :

Strawberries halved	200g
Melon cubed	200g
Lemon juice freshly squeezed	½
Walnuts	Handful

Health Benefits of Rosemary

Ms H 

Rosemary is an evergreen plant, herb, so its needle-like leaves can be picked all year around. Fresh and dried leaves are used to flavour many dishes. Tea made by infusing chopped leaves in boiling water has its health benefits, one example; it helps digestion. Rosemary oil is widely used as natural remedy.

In ancient Egypt they used it in remembrance putting springs and wreath on tombs.

The health benefits of rosemary are the followings:

·       reduces  anxiety, elevates mood, provides calming effects

• brain protector, improves memory
• headache and general pain, reliever
• anti-inflammatory effect makes it helpful treating Arthritis,
• immune system promoter
• digestion soother
• improves  circulation
• detoxifies the liver
• protects against DNA damage,  cancer preventer  (due to containing carnosol, a compound found to have anti-cancer properties)
• anti-ageing effect on skin and hair.

Rosemary Herb Benefits Health in Many Ways

By Salvator Giustra 

Rosemary is a powerful herbal remedy that is currently used for headache, indigestion & depression (in addition to its adding flavour to many dishes). However, it also has many other uses as outlined below.

Using rosemary as an herbal remedy

Asthma may be relieved by rosemary's volatile oil, which can open air passages narrowed by histamine.

Another important benefit of this herb includes preventing food spoilage as the commercial products BHA & BHT. Simply fold crushed rosemary into meat, fish, pasta & potato salads. Of course, rosemary also enhances the flavour of the foods it is mixed into.

You can also use rosemary for body odour that is caused by bacteria or fungus. Simply mix ground rosemary into bath powder and use normally. You can also use the leaves to make tea or as a bath wash.

Rosemary's health effects include its action against infectious bacteria. This also extends to its inhibiting infections from minor cuts. Simply press fresh leaves onto cut before washing & treating.

While modern herbalists do not generally recommend rosemary for memory problems like ancient people did, there might still be a role for it in cognitive problems. As a tea or shampoo, rosemary contains certain compounds that may help inhibit Alzheimer's . Drink lots of rosemary tea & use shampoos containing its essence.

Rosemary also improves hair quality & may delay baldness. Give it a shot. At worse you'll come out with very clean hair.

Rosemary has generally stimulative properties so it may be a good natural treatment for fatigue. Drink several cups of rosemary tea a day or look for candles that contain rosemary oil.

Scabies is a disturbing condition where mites house themselves under the skin & lay its eggs. This causes infections & lesions. What rosemary does for sufferers is minimizing pain of scabies by dabbing cooled tea onto affected areas.

Its antispasmodic effects enable it to relax smooth muscle tissue so rosemary is quite good for digestive problems.

Rosemary can also help relieve congestion brought on by colds & flu.

Rosemary also contains powerful antioxidants which may help in preventing cancer, heart disease & premature aging.

Its antioxidant effects may also help arthritis sufferers especially before disease worsens.

Moreover, its antioxidant properties also suggest it may be effective against cataract formation. Drink lots of rosemary tea for that purpose.

If I've lost your attention, how about this? Rosemary is being studies for its ability to prevent & treat wrinkles by Japanese researchers. Drink some rosemary tea & use its essence in facial masks.

How to use rosemary to improve health

For congestion, make an herbal tea with crushed rosemary. Use 1 tsp per cup of hot water, steep for 10 minutes, strain & enjoy a few cups a day. You can also inhale steam from tea to breath in rosemary’s healthful properties.

As a bath, add 10 drops to warm water.

As a tincture, use 1/2 - 1 1/2 tsp, 2 - 3x daily.

For commercial preparations, follow manufacturer’s directions.

You can offer diluted rosemary tea to children less than 2 years of age.

Finally, use rosemary liberally, to taste, in meats & potatoes.

Cautions when using rosemary

Rosemary is very safe to take for most people.

However, even small amounts of rosemary oil may cause irritation of the stomach, kidneys & intestines. Larger doses may be poisonous.

Never ingest more than a drop of concentrated rosemary oil.

Salvator Giustra is an educator and health researcher. With a little help from my friends I am the creator of Healthy World Online, Inc.which includes several websites including:

[http://www.herbalremediesworld.com/]

[http://www.HealthyWorldOnline.net/]

I am currently a NYC Teaching Fellow, health researcher & computer scientist.

Previously, I was a clinical psychotherapist, psychological evaluator, taught at the College of New Rochelle for many years & spent a few years directing a busy psychiatric clinic in New York, produced a newspaper - jobs that I often held concurrently.

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